Carl Einstein in Documents

About the Book

The short-lived art magazine Documents (1929-30) has since the eighties become an object of increasing fascination to art historians and students of French intellectual culture. The light shed on Documents has not, however, dispelled the sense of mystery surrounding its two years of exuberant production, and sudden demise. What actually happened? The main figure associated with the magazine has been the writer Georges Bataille but a German novelist and art historian Carl Einstein was also centrally involved. What was he doing in Documents, and why has he disappeared from the picture? This book traces Einstein´s role, detailing his charged collaboration with the younger Bataille, which contributed to Documents´ collapse.

About the Author

Conor Joyce was born in Dublin in 1958 and was brought up in Mallow, Co. Cork. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and at the Universities of Oxford, Paris and, more recently, Essex. He lived in London from 1986-1998 where he worked as a financial journalist and art critic. He spent a year in 1998-1999 living in Berlin, doing research resulting in this book, and now lives in Dublin.